Complete Information on Adrenocortical carcinoma with Treatment and Prevention
Although adrenocortical carcinoma is rare in adults, it is even more uncommon in children.
Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare malignancy with a poor prognosis. Adrenocortical carcinoma has no racial predilection. Also called adrenocortical cancer and cancer of the adrenal cortex. Adrenal carcinomas arise from the adrenal cortex and are bilateral in up to 10% of patients. The cause is unknown. About 2 people per million develop this type of tumor. Adrenocortical carcinoma has a bimodal occurrence, with the first peak in the first decade of life and the second peak in the fourth to fifth decades of life. Risk factors for adrenocortical carcinoma include having the following hereditary diseases: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Carney complex.
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